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Destructiveness,
erosion. Mental and physical breakdown.
Hereditary tendency to alcoholism.
Nocturnal aggravation. Bone pains or destruction. Neuralgias.
Ulcerations or distortions (could be congenital).
Washing mania with fear of infections.
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SYNONYM
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Leusinum
or Leuticum.
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COMMON
NAME
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The
syphilitic virus. A nosode.
The King of Anti-Syphilitic remedies.
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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Every alternate full moon
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Continued or slow motion
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MIND
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Persons
antisocial, hopeless, despair of recovery, horrid depression, feels as
if he will go insane or will become paralysed.
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Forgetfulness,
does not remember faces; name events; places etc., but remembers things
previous to his illness, has a faraway feeling - that he is not
himself.
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Apathy
and indifference to the future.
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IMPULSE
TO WASH HANDS. Profound aversion to dirt or to touching dirty things.
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COMPULSIVE
CHECKING. Compulsive neurosis.
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Very
nervous, laughs or weeps without cause; does not wish to be soothed.
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Aversion
to company. Sad and lamenting.
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Nightly
delirium. Terrible dread of the night.
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ALCOHOLISM
(hereditary tendency).
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Fear
and anxiety especially of the health, strong fear of INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
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Fear
night and the suffering, from exhaustion on waking.
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GUIDING
INDICATIONS
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Useful
in chronic cases with poor reactivity and no amelioration with the
indicated remedy. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism or history of
syphilis.
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Suited
to persons with pale, fine textured skin, who are slender, having
graceful movements.
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NOCTURNAL
AGGRAVATION of all complaints, from sunset to sunrise. Absolute dread
of the night.
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Craving
for ALCOHOL in any form acutely.
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Constant
ERUPTIONS, pustular boils and abscesses in endless succession; foul
green pus. Knots in muscles. Stubborn ulceration.
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FOETIDITY
of all discharges and secretions; stool; urine; sweat and all other
secretions.
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Affections
of all the glands of the body.
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Pains
which increase and decrease gradually, violent and linear.
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Much
emaciation, great debility and prostration but with few symptoms.
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Chronicity
of complaints.
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Face
- Distorted facial features (mild asymmetry of face).
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Facial
neuralgia < night.
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Head
- Neuralgic headache causing sleeplessness and delirium.
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Pain
starting at 4p.m., < 10-11 p.m., ceasing at daybreak, with falling
of hair.
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Deep,
crushing head pains; beats the head against the wall.
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C.N.S.
- Cerebral softening, slowly advancing hemiplegia.
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Eye
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Linear
head pain with vertical diplopia, ptosis, glimmering vision.
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Inflammation
of cornea > cool bathing.
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Pain
over left eye < protruding tongue.
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Strabismus.
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Nose
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Bone
and cartilage affections - caries of nasal bone; abscess of middle ear. |
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Nose
painful to inhaled air.
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Ozaena. |
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Snuffles. |
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Nasal
or oral cancer. |
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Chronic,
postnasal drip. |
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Mouth
- Teeth feel sticky; as if a worm in; decay below gum line, serrated
and dwarfed.
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Tongue
coated, indented, with deep longitudinal cracks in the centre; with
ulcerations.
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Salivation
increased, drooling during sleep.
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G.I.T.
- Chronic constipation - obstinate, for years.
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Rectum
feels tied up in stricture.
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Fissure
in anus and rectum.
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Urinary
system - Urine voided when standing, frothy.
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Female
genitalia - Menses with the odour of rotten meat.
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Leucorrhoea
profuse; acrid; greenish, running to the heels with itching.
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Male
genitalia - Induration of spermatic cords.
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Back
- Backache < urinating.
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Curvature
of spine. Scoliosis.
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Extremities
- Rheumatism of the shoulder joint at the insertion of the deltoid <
raising the arm laterally.
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Pain
in the middle fingers.
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Bone
pains, growing pains < heat of the bed, > cold applications.
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Skin
- Ulcerations, especially of legs.
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Sleep
- Insomnia < 2-4 a.m. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Nocturnal aggravation of all complaints.
- Violent linear pain.
- Craving for alcohol in any form.
- Leucorrhea profuse, soaking through the napkin and running down to
the heels.
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NUCLEUS
OF REMEDY
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When
there is hereditary tendency to alcoholism or a syphilitic taint.
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Lack
of reaction with much prostration and few symptoms or multiphase
symptoms.
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Nocturnal
aggravations of all complaints.
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Ulcerations,
foetidity and syphilitic affections. |
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CONFIRMATORY
SYMPTOMS
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- < Night, sunset to sunrise.
- History of Syphilitic taint.
- Ulceration and destruction of bones.
- Recurrent abscesses.
- Pain violent, linear.
- Craving for alcoholism in any form.
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CLINICAL
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Abscess,
Acne, Alcoholism, Alopecia, Aneurysm, Anxiety, Aphthae, Bone pains,
Compulsive disorder, Insomnia, Leucorrhoea, Malignancy, Neuralgia,
Psoriasis, Scoliosis.
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When
Tuberculinum fails try Syphilinum, it often arouses reaction -
Dr.William Boericke.
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In
Lympho-sarcoma think of Syphilinum [Cystus canadensis] - Dr.Leon Rohand.
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When
a patient is slow re-establishing himself, a single dose of Syphilinum
will bring him, his appetite, strength, sleep and former weight - Dr.
Kent. |
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REMEDY
RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare:
Abro,
Asaf, Asar, Aur, Bac, Caust, Ferr, Graph, Iod, Kali-bi, Kali-i,
Kali-iod, Kreos, Lac-c, Lac-d, Lach, Mang, Med, Merc, Nat-m, Nit-ac,
Phos, Psor, Rhus-t, Sang, Sep, Spig, Stann, Sul-ac, Sulph, Thuj, Tub,
Urt-u
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